The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK. (..8 , 02w the Times 'Special Correspondent with the !Allied Army.) BROACKER, March 20. I took a ride yesterday afternoon round the Prus sian advanced posts, as far as Rackebull, passing over• most of the around in which the fight of the 17th inst. occurred. Taking a northward road from Broacker I reached the high road, rather in advance of Nubel, and proceeded along it, past Frydendal, to the hill usually known as the Rnhenberg, but which Ido not find named on any map. It is im• mediately on the right of the highway, and has re mained in the hands of the Prussians since its cap tare on Thursday last. A strong picket of infantry and two howitzers are stationed there. A roof of planks has been laid over a pit, forming a sort of but for the men to sleep in. Immediately below the crest of the hill the ground is slightly hollowed out and here straw is spread, and men lying down on it watch the proceedings of the enemy, Judging by the eye, I estimate the distance from this hill to the nearest Danish fort (No. 5) at half an English mile, or little more. At the further end of the first field from the advanced picket, and behind the hedge of the next field were the sentries. About 150 yards further stood the Danish sentries, spread along a line by twos. Every now and then a few shots are fired by the men in advance, the tempta tion beingAß it seems too strong to resist. A house a little in rear of the hill had been burnt during the fight on Thursday. Having seen all that was to be seen, and had a good look at the Danes moving about within their lines, I returned along the highway and took the cross road through West Dappel. The village is not nearly so much destroyed as was reported; a few houses have been burnt, but the majority are still standing. Many bear the marks ot shell and bullet, including the church, which is nearly the rearmost building of the village, and whose belfry and walls had suffered from Prussian shot. Around it and in the neigh bouring houses the Prussian garrison is now chiefly stationed, the foremost houses of the village being too much at the mercy of the fire from the Danish forts. Continuing my way along a narrow lane still northwards to Rackebull, I passed just within the advanced posts, extended behind the hedge-row a rising ground to the right, and suddenly, by fa vour of a dip in the land, obtained an excellent view of Fort No. 9, and, to my surprise, for I was not aware it could be seen from that part of the line, of the town ot Sonderborg—from the north west, as I previously had seen it from the south west, this latter beiag, however, by far the best point to observe it from. On Fort No. 9 was visible a black mass of troops, the Danish outposts were very near, and the Prussians in the lane and fields seemed much upon the alert, as if anticipating a brush. Rackebull, a small straggling village, was occupied by a considerable number of soldiers, and they had established a lookout place on the roof of a house by means of two connected ladders, reaching to the summit of the sloping roof. Desiring, if possible, to return home by another road, I and my com panion pulled up in the middle of the village, and began to study a map. This was too much for the equanimity of the soldiers, who had already eyed us with something more than curiosity as we pursued our zigzag way among the scattered cot tages. Two civilians, evidently foreigners—for our tongue, I fear, betrayed us in some inquiries we had made about the road—presenting themselves thus among the outposts within easy distance of the Danes, and pausing in the market-place to look at a map and ask questions, what could they be but spies ? It was exactly what spies might be exp - cted to do, so, at least, evidently thought the garrison of B.ackebull. With the earner of my eye, as I sought the right pith upan the map, I marked the rising suspicion, and when I looked up, we were surouuded. " Who are you, and whence come, and whither going ?'' The hone.t, good-humoured fellows, who' seem to dream of spies, had, I believe, :sent for on oirie:r, but he was not immediately to be found. The production of a piece of paper, bearing a few magical words and a magnidcent seal (the seal is of great effect in such cases, especially if one has to do with people who, like Tony Lumpkin, are not very apt at reading handwriting) quickly - produced an apology and opened a passage. As there is no second road, except a very circuitous one, from Rackbull to Breaker, wo returned by the way we came, varying it by passing through the Buffet Koppel, a sloping and picturesque woodland patch. The whole of the ride wan through a country which, when spring shall have replaced the stubborn win. ter that still refuses to relinquish its icy grasp of the soil, will certainly be extremely beautiful. Last night a battery of three rifled 12 pounders was established on the right of the Ruhenberg, a little to the rear of that important hill and nearer to the Venning Blind. This morning there has been some pretty brisk firing, the Danish batteries have been unusually lively—irritated, I suppose, at seeing their enemy closing in upon them. They have been firing shell from large ship guus-68 pounders, I believe—and at one time, when I was observing them from a height near Broacker, they seemed to be paying particular attention to the new battery, as if they considered its intrusion unwarrantable. Several shells burst in it or unpleasantly near to it, but what casualties occurred I have not yet heard. The distance is not great, but it is astonishing what a deal of powder and shot it sometimes takes to make np a few dead men even at short range. Of this we had en example in the combat of the 17th. Considering the amount of shell and rifle bullets then fired away one might have expected a heavy butcher's bill. But the Prussian loss is returned as less than 100—between 80 and 90, I hear, Concern. ing the loss of the Danes exaggerated rumours have been current, but I have good grounds for believing that when you get the returns from the other side it will prove to have been nearly 100 dead and about twice as many wounded, besides the 270 pri soners before mentioned. The Danes left many dead ,and wounded behind them, and the latter are in the Prussian hospital, with the exception of two or three who have already died of their wounds. On Friday there was a suspension of arms for a few hours for the purpose of burying the dead left on the field. This morning gravedigging was going on in Broackee churchyard, so probably there Lave been some more deaths in the hospital. The doctors tell me that most of those who are mortally wounded die within the first two days. For the disparity of the loss of the 17th betweeen Prussians and Danes I can account only by the great superiority of the rifles used by the former. Reverting to the recent I little action, and with reference to the account I gave of it in my letter of the 18th, I find that it commenced with a kind of sortie of the Danes— that is to say, two battalions advanced on Racke • hull, hoping to burn it before the troops stationed there could be reinforced. They were quickly re pulsed, but this brought on the fight. It was not at first intended to keep West Puppet (East Duppel, erroneously reported to have been taken, was situated close to Fort No. 6, and was razed to the ground by the Danes some. time ago) but Prince Frederick Charles, for reasons which are not public, but which may easily be divined, afterwards resolved to do so, and sent down an aide -do-c amp with the requisite order. The place must soon have been taken if the attack on Puppet was to proceed, and of course it was best to keep it when once captured. Unfortunately the village had already been evacuated, and had to be taken again —with less fighting, however, than the first time, according t o the opi ni on of v irious officers eng aged. The interval bctvvt en the end of the first ;fight and beginning of the second was very brief. Tne extent of ground acquired by the Prussians is not great, but it is decidedly important, by reason of the diminution it makes in the distance between b es ieged. The D an i sh positions are besiegers sad certainly exceedingly strong, and although one heard sp3ak, some time ego, of taki ng them by a rush after danntieg the garrison a little by a heavy cannonade, I do not bear anything of the kind now, but on the contrary, men talk of regular approaches being made, and of the place being treated like another Sebastopol, which fortress, at least in the strength of its massive earthworks and the s'eep ness of some of its ascents, it not a little resembles. If the Danes be as good soldiers as their friends represent them, and as they have to some extent proved themselves to be in the present war, the Prussians have a great deal of work before them, and certainly will not gain the place without paying dearly for it. And if they have to take the place— which they cannot do without great loss of life—l think you will find that the military spirit of Ger many will have been roused by the conflict, and that the personal union will no longer be agreed to by the German Governments. Here, in this poor little Schleswig village, with a name as rugged as the climate and the coast, we hear not much of politics, see few papers (a couple of ten days old limes that have just reached me, after wandering over the greater part of Schleswig and part of Jutland, are quite a treasure), and know nothing of what diplo matists are planning and doing. But there are some things that will stand out pretty clearly before us. The allies will not leave their lines round Duppel until the Danes have evacuated it de gre ou de force; the siege may be a long one, but they will ultimately take the place, because their resources are greater, their implements of war better, and . their troops, in my belief, and as I think the incidents of the cam paign have already shown, of superior quality to those of their enemy ; finally, the prolongation of this conflict greatly increases the danger of its leading to an European war. These three propositions are, I think, incontrovertible, and they certainly claim some consideration at the hands of those who desire and have it in their power to restore and maintain peace in Europe. It is afternoon and, as I write, I hear the big Danish guns occasionally booming, but the cannon ade seems less lively. To-day is Prince Frederick Charles's birthday, and the soldiers said this morn ing that the unusually brisk and early interchange of shots was in celebration of the festival. The Prince is very popular with the troops under his orders; his activity is great, and he is constantly to be seen riding about and visiting the lines and out posts. He has long had the reputation of a very smart soldier, and he has now the opportunity, doubtless much coveted, of proving his military capacity in au important command and a difficult enterprise. A Danish officer taken the other day at West Duppel states that five of the Prussian shells tell in Sonderborg, and caused no small sensation, as well as considerable apprehension lest these live proofs of the powers of the Prussiata guns should only be the precursors of a great many others. You may tranquillize the minds of your friends in that place by informing them that there is no present intention of practising upon its buildings or shelling out its inhabitants. Bat when the day comes for an assault upon the forts, they had better be upon their guard. There are certain fire-shells in store for them which assuredly will not miss their mark. Nothing can save Sonderborg upon that day when the Prussian artillery shall devote it to destruction. Advantageous points for the observation of the surrounding country, including the greater part of that corner of the mainland which the Danes still occupy, abound in the neighbourhood of the quaint and pretty village in which I have for the present taken up my quarters. The nearest of these points is the churchyard, which forms the rendezvous for idlers and others desirous to watch the exchange of shots between batteries and forts. Sust within the low parapet wall separating it from the road, above which it is somewhat elevated, groups of soldiers are nearly all day to be seen, and in the morning, before the reliefs go out, one usually meets there officers of all ranks, smoking their after-breakfast cigar or waiting for their horses to be brought up, while the surgeons from the neighbouring hospital stroll in after going their rounds, as though it were to watch the sexton preparing a last resting place for those their skill has been inadequate to save. There is naturally no small interchange of news, of remarks on the past incidents and future probabilities of the campaign, and it is possible that not a few canards are first hatched iu that cemetery. Field glasses are in demand to ascertain what may have occurred during the night, whether any new battery has sprung up on our side, or any visible damage been sustained by those upon the other, especially by that inveterate fellow. No. 2 Fort, who has hitherto fired more than any three of the others—perhaps than all put together, and who has been pelted proportion. Then, from one corner of the church, high above the ground, project two poles, from which depend sundry cords, to which latter at times black balls are attached, arranged in various positions, signalling orders or information to other similar posts at a distance. Persons whose curiosity is not to be satisfied by what they can see from the ground below, may, by ascending sundry ladders, squeezing themselves through trapdoors, and ven turing over some very ricketty temporary flooring, reach a high station within the church, where they will find a guard of soldiers, loopholes in ttie wail, and a good telescope through which to look down upon the surrounding country. I have not yet had leisure fully to ascertain all that is done within that church, but one feat that is daily performed on a certain part of its exterior is worthy to be pointed out to that eccentric Englishman who ie said con tinually to attend the exhibitions of the most intre pid lion-tamer in hopes of seeing him one day de voured by his beasts. Broacker church has two steeples, strongly reminding one, by their form, of Receivers, and constantly intruding themselves into view, owing to their elevated position, as one wan ders over the surrounding country. The points of the slated steeples, rising out of towers which ; as well as the body of the edifice, are of a whiteness pure enough to make any London church shake with envy, are surmounted by tall iron rods, sup porting two quaint figures, which, if they had legs, would represent a caricature of feathered bipeds, and which are supposed to be cocks, and to have been once gilt—probably thinly, or very long ago, for the process sadly wants renewing. About half way up each rod is a rusty iron ornament, of no great size, and of a form difficult to describe, but from below they looked to me like iron Catherine wheels, the rods passing through their centre. On one of the first days that I was at Broacher, returning home towards dusk, I was startled at seeing a living creature, whose genus I could not immediately de fine, apparently transfixed on the iron rod of the north steeple. Its limbs moved and curled them_ selves round the rod, as if in the agonies likely to be caused by impalement; and it was rather a relief to find, on nearer approach, that the strange object was not writhing in the tortures of a cruel death, but only a man looking through a telescope. By opening a door in the side of the steeple, which fell back into a horizontal position and so served as a platform, and by planting a ladder upon it, he had got to the top of the steeple ; then began the ascent of the finial, and that was more difficult, but its base is an iron ball, looking like a cauldron with the cover on, and upon this he had managed to get and thence firmly to fix two wooden bars, by means of a cord, transversely on the iron rod, forming two steps, which enabled him to reach the ornament before-mentioned. Upon this he sat, with one arm round the rod, calmly sweeping the enemy's lines with a long telescope. Oa the platform of the steeple a soldier lay upon his back looking up at this adventurous climber, and probably transmit ting his communications to some one within. By the aid of my glass I made out that the man on the rod was tall and stout and bearded, and that he seemed as much at his ease in that perilous post as if he had passed his life. Assuredly he mast, at one time or another, have been either a (sailor or a tiler, or perhaps he has taken lessons of Blondin. I have got used to seeing him now, for he passes hours every day up there, and I have seen him go down and get up very steadily and delibe rately, assisting himeelf by one or two rope-ends that hOng from the rod ; and I have left off suppos ing that he must end by scattering his brains on the tombstones below for want of a firm grasp or of a head that never knows dizziness, and I hardly think it would be worth the while of a sensation seeker to take up his quarters in Broacher on the chance of his coming to grief. A man who passes his days in so exalted a position may be supposed unwilling to condescerd to earth even for his nightly rest ; and I suspect he must take his meals and sleep in some lofty nook of that ancient edifice. I did think I saw him one thy turning a corner, and I rushed after him to express my respect for his performances, and inquire about the manners and habits of the Danes, which he is always prying into, but I did not find him ; and, as I saw him a fow roinulei Lister .sitting c; ers-lagged on the iron tar, I suppose I was mistaken. He is a most pe cu'iar and interesting feature of the scenery in Broacker churchyard, and I sincerely hope that a deviation of the finial from the perpendicular, which I to-day observed, will not increase to such an extent as to deprive the army of his services, and the commanding officer of the valuable infer mation he doubtless conveys to him. Perhaps he had better try the other steeple. An officer and eight men, including two Danes, who had died of wounds received on the 17th, were buried this afternoon in Broacker churchyard. One half of the wounded from that aiTiir now in hospital here are Danes. The following is the fall text of the Message of the King of Denmark to the Rigsdag Christian IX., &c,, send our Royal greeting to the Rigsdag. The deliberations of the Rigsdag close at a period preg nant with important events, Many of your number when you return to your homes will find them occupied by the enemy. Accept our thanks for having quietly and un dauntedly remained at your posts in the Legislative Assembly, affording powerful support to our Government in the struggle for the country. Carry our greeting with you to all quarters of the land. Tell your fellow. citizens that our heart bleeds at the thought of the sufferings of our faithful subjects on both sides of the Konigsau, but tell them at the same time that our enemies little know tho Dane if they ancy the burdens they impose upon him will arouse the wish within his breast that we should sacrifice the ho'y cause of the country. By threats of employing force our predecessors upon the throne were induced to assign to the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg a peculiar position in the monarchy, and the situation thereby rendered necessary is now styled a breach of treaty obligations. An execution has been carried out in Holstein upon pretext of these obligations, and Schleswig is occupied as a pledge. During the execution in Holstein, and under the protection of the troops of the German Con federation, free scope is given to the revolutionary move ment directed against us. The occupation of Schleswig is made use of to treat that portion of the country like a Prus sian or Austrian province. Clerical and civil officials are dismissed in crowds, clergy and persons in authority are carried off to prison upon frivolous pretexts, and treated worse than common criminals ; the monument to our brave fallen warriors is desecrated and torn down; our own initials are obliterated from all public buildings; the use of the style "Royal" is prohibited; the ancient flag of the country, the Dannebrog, is made to give place to the revolutionary banner of 1848; the regulations of the special Schleswig constitution with regard to language are violated by an arbitrary decree. The enemy has riot even been content to stop here ; he has crossed the Konigsau and now overruns North Jutland. Still we stand alone. 'We know not how long Europe will remain an indifferent spectator of the acts of violence committed against us and our people. We repeat our assurance to the Rigsdag. We are ready to do everything to obtain a peace which would be service able to the country; but our enemies must be aware that the time is still distant when we or our people can be com pelled to submit to a peace humiliating to Denmark. The last word of your King to you and to your constitu ents is—Endurance I God be with you, THE st . l4', LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1864. THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. aedrelanclet contains the following report from an eyewitness of the naval engagement off Greifswalie : The Sjalland, Heimdal, and Thor had been lying several days off Rugen. On Wednesday morning Prussian gun• boats were visible, but immediately turned back. The Skjold and Heimdal were engaged in the course of the day is coaling from the transport Newsky, when at ten o'clock two Prussian frigates, the Arcona and the Nymph, one paddlewheel steamer, the Lorelcy, and eight gunboats hove in sight. The Sjalland was forced to engage the whole hostile force alone for half-an-hour, and opened fire upon the frigates and gunboats. When Skjold, Thor, and Heim dal came up the Prussian steamed eastward round the island of Greiswalde. The Loreley sent the Sjalland raking shots, but took to flight after two well-aimed shots from the frigate. The Prussians must have thrown ballast over board to obtain unusual speed, for one of the frigates save• ral times heeled over on her side. The paddlewheel steamer must have suffered very consi derably ; several of her boats were shot away, and we picked up a handsome jolly boat. The gunboats kept quite close to the land, and fired upon the Thor and Heimdal, though their shot fell short. We chased the enemy eastward; at 7 he had reached Swinemunde, while we were about a mile to the north. The damage to the Sjalland will not compel her to quit the station. The Skjold had her plating penetrated, but none killed nor wounded. As a proof of the eagerness of the men to take part in the fight, it may be mentioned that the Heimdal had 20 men on the sick list in the morn•. ing, 15 of whom reported themselves ready for service the moment the affair began. Correspondence Found on the Body of Colonel Dahlgren, Several papers were found in the pockets o. Dah!gren, copies of which nre subjoined : ADDRESS TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN. The following address to the Mlle rs and men of the com mand was written on a sheet of paper, having, in printe I letters, on the upper corner, "Head-quarters, Third Divi sion, Cavalry Corps, 1861:" " Officers and Men,—You have been selected from brigades and regiments as a picked command to attempt a desperate undertaking—an undertaking which, if suc cessful, will write your names on the hearts of your countrymen in letters that can never be erased, and which will cause the prayers of your fellow-soldiers, now confined in loathsome prisons, to follow you and yours ohereveryou may go. We hope to release the prisoners from Bella Isle first, and, having seen them fairly started, we will cross the James River into Richmond, destroy the bridges after us, and exhorting the released prisoners to destroy and burn the hateful city, will not allow the rebel leader Da:•is and his traitorous crew to escape. The prisoners must render great assistance, as you cannot leave your ranks too far or become too much scattered, or you will be lost. Da not allow any personal gain to lead you off, which would only bring you to an ignominious death at the hands of citizens. Keep well together and obey orders strictly, and all will be well ; but on no account scatter too far, for in union there is strength. With strict obedience to orders and fearless ness in their execution you will be sure to succeed. We will join the main force on the other side of the city, or perhaps meet them inside. Many of you may fall; but it there is any man here not willing to sacrifice his life in such a great and glorious undertaking, or who does not feel capable of meeting the enemy in such a desperate fight as will follow, let him step out, and he may go hence to the arms of his sweetheart, and road of the bt ayes who swept through the city of Richmond, We want no man who cannot feel sure of success in such a holy cause. We will have a desperate fight; but stand up to it when it does come and all will be well. Ask the blessing of the Almighty and do not fear the enemy. " U. DAHLGItEN, Colonel Commanding." SPECIAL ORDERS AND INSTRUCTIONS. The following special orders were written on a similar sheet of paper and on detached slips, the whole disclosing the diabolical plans of the leaders of the expedition : " Guides and pioneers, with oakum, turpentine, and torpedoes, signal officer, quartermasters, commissaires , scouts, and pickets, and men in rebel unifoms—these will remain on the north bank and move down with the force on the south bank, not get ahead of them, and if the communication can be kept up without giving an alarm it must be done; but everything depends upon a surprise, and no one must be allowed to pass ahead of the column. Information must be gathered in regard to the crossings of the river, so that should we be repulsed on the south side we will know where to recross at the nearest point. "All mills must be burned and the canal destroyed, and also everything which can be used by the rebels must be destroyed, including the boats on the river. Should a ferryboat be seized which can be worked, have it moved down. Keep the force on the south side posted of any important movement of the enemy, and in case of danger some of the scouts must swim the river and bring us in formation, As we approach the city the party must take great care that they do not go ahead of the other party on the south side, and must conceal themselves and watch our movements. We will try and secure the bridge to the city, one mile below Belle Isle, and release the prisoners at the same time. If we do not succeed they must then dash down, and we will try to carry the bridge by storm. When neces sary the men must be filed through the woods and along the river bank. The bridge once secured and the prisoners loose and over the river, the bridges will be burned and the city destroyed. "The men must be kept together and well in hand, and once in the city, it must be destroyed, and Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet killed. Pioneers will go along with com bustible material. "Everything on the canal and elsewhere of service to the rebels must be destroyed. " As General Custer may follow mo be careful not to give a false alarm. The signal officer must be prepared to communicate at night by rockets, and in other things partaining to his department. The quartermasters and commissaries must be on the look out for their depart ments, and see that there are no delays on their account. The engineer officer will follow and survey the road as we pass over it, &c. The pioneers must be prepared to con struct a bridge or destroy one. They must have plenty of oakum and turpentine for burning, which will be soaked and rolled into balls, and be given to the men to burn when we get into the city, Torpedoes will only be used by the pioneers for burning the main bridges, &c. They must be prepared to destroy the railroads. " Men will branch off to the right with a few pioneers and destroy the bridges and railroads south of Richmond, and then join us at the city. They must be well prepared with torpedoes, &c. The line of Falling Creek is probably the best to march along, or, as they approach the city, Good's Creek, so that no reinforcements can come upon any cars. " No one must be allowed to pass ahead for fear of com municating news. " Rejoin the command with all haste, and if cut off cross the river above Richmond and rejoin us. Man will stop at Bellow). Arsenal and totally destroy it ; and every thing else but hospitals ; then follow on and rejoin the com mand at Richmond with all haste, and, if cut off, cross the river and rejoin us. As General Custer may follow me, be careful and not give a false alarm." EXTRAORDINARY CASE, At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Saturday, Maria Read and Henry Rend, mother and son, residing at No. 2, Union-court, Stoke Newington, appeared before Mr. D'Eyncourt, to answer the complaint of Mary Ann Vickers, for having stolen a Bank of England note of the value of £2OO, and other moneys, belonging to the cmplainant. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, for the defence. Miss Mary Ann Vickers, of 16, London-road North. Dalston, said,—l am unmarried. I had a relation Joseph Hankin. I was the nearesi blood relation. He was my 3ecoud cousin, and was a widower with no family. He was formerly a builder and connector, and before his death he resided at 2, Union-court, Stoke Nowington. Tnat was a house kept by the prisoner, Maria Read, and her husband. The prisoner, Henry Read, is her son. The husband of the female prisoner is a scavenger. The deceased had lodged with the prisoners about a year and a half, and had paid the female prisoner 12s. per week for his board and lodging. I had visited him very frequently while he was there. The deceased was on very intimate terms with me, and we never had any unkind words. He made statements to me with reference to his money. He was paralyzed for some months before his death, and partly kept his bed. He was a man of very reserved habits. On the 231 of July, 1863, I was in the prisoner's house, when Mr. Hankin expressed a desire to make a will. He made a statement to me which I put on paper, and after wards had put in the form of a will. On that day I was in his bedroom with the will before him. I went down stairs and said to the female prisoner, " Mrs. Read, my cousin wishes me to take all he pos sesses, and to attend to his affairs in the event of his death. Will you and your husband have any objec tion to sign that will ss witnesses ?" She said, "No, not, any. My husband and I will come up and do it." They did come up stairs and signed tee hill witnesses. I have since proved the will at. Doctors' Commons, and the probate of the will is dated 16rh of March, 1854. I had seen him in possession of money some time before the making of the will. In June, 1859, he gave into my possession a £2OO note, two £lOO notes, six £lO notes, and £10') in gold. I returned him the money in November, 1859 Mr. Hankin died on the 26e1; of November last. I then weet to take possession of his property. I had seen the above money in Minh. 1862. He said to me, "Life is very uncertain. You have not done any thing with my money; take it away as soon as I die." I went to take possession of the money, but I could not find it in his room. Ith n spoke to the female prisour2r, and I believe the younger prisoner was present. I said, "Mrs. Read, you must be aware that Mr. Hankin had money. All he pos sessed was in this house. Where is it, and do you know anything about it ? He had money to a large amount, Bank of England notes. It was in a small box inside a large one." She said, " I know no thing about it. I never knew he had any money beyond what he paid me for his board and lodging every week, You know Mrs. French has been here and staved with him until seen in the evening, m a n a d i n eshed oleft of stupor, and he re mained gentleman, has also been r h s i o m m e ia da a y s s t a tt t r e t to see him." She said, rrvvards. An old friend, " Psrhaps Mrs. French 14 1 1 , s eometh:ng about the money." The male prisoner wah..l present at that. interview. That day she stoutly oeni:6l knovying anything about the money. Ido not remea. —ber male prisoner joining in the conversation. The nett, day I found Mrs. French and made somo inquiries, and then went bask and saw the two prisoners together. The male prisoner said, " Have you found out Mrs. French ?" and I said, " Yes, I have, and she will come here." Or. the Monday follow ing the death of the deceased I wept again with some friends. My mother asked Mrs. Read if Mr. l i Hankin had ever at any time made her a present in money, jewelry, or clothing. She said, "No, never, or to any of her family to her knowledge." The male prisoner was present. He. said, " Mother, don't say another word, hut let them go to law with us." 1 went again sometime afterwards on the Bth of Jaeuery with Inspector Langdon. I had then received some information with respect to the money. Ther© was a coroner's inquest held on the body of Joseph Hankin, the deceased, three months after his death, and the verdict was that he died of congestion of the lungs caused by privation. The prisoners were present at the inquest. I heard Mrs. Read say that she changed the £lOO note on the 10th or 11th of December, 1863. The male prisoner was present, but was not examined. I made a search, but found nothing. On my mother making a further search we found a few old clothes and rags, a pair of silver spoons, and about £l2 in gold in a tea caddy. 'There were also a few old coins and two silver watches. About Sep tember, 1853, I easy £l2O paid to deceased on . the sale of a house. It was his habit to keep his boxes locked, and his keys were clutched in his hands when he died. Cross-examined by Mr. Beard.—When I had possession of the money it was in a box, and he showed it to me and counted it out. 1 did not see the money after I gave it to him back. He only told me he had the money. He left my house because I kept my business. That caused no unpleasantness or ill feeling. There was no breach of good feeling, for we never had a word. Wnen I spoke to Mrs. Read about the money I did not say it was all gold.. The deceased was of very miserly habits. Mr. Lang don said to Mrs. Read, " Have you any witnesses ?" she said, " Only my own family."' 1 don't re collect that she said that deceased told her not to tell any of the Vickers's family about it, as he did not want them to know. Re-examined.--She did not say when he gave her the money, either before or after the making of the will. The deceased was very communicative to me about his money. My mother and myself were the only persons who visited him. The little box that contained his money was unlocked. Inspector Langdon, N division, said—On the Bth of January I accompanied Miss Vickers to a small cottage up a court in Stoke Newington. Mrs. Rend was there, and I said, "I am a police officer. I have come to make some inquiries respecting a Mr. Hankin, who died hero a short time ego. I want to ask you a few questions in reference to his pro perty ; be careful before you answer them." I said, " Did he before ho died give you any money or money's worth, or property. " Her words were— " Oh! dear no, poor man. Ho had no money for himself. He would have died for want had it not been for me, as friends have taken no notice of him." I then said " He gave you no money whatever ?" and she said "N o ." Ab ou t t his time the male pri soner came down stairs, and I said, " How do you account for the £2OO no t e y o u changed at the Bank of England f or go ld ?" At that time I produced a piece of pap er , an d sa id, " This is my information I have obtain e d f rom th e Bank of England." As soon as.l said that the male prisoner said, "Mother, don't you answer another question." The woman, however, said, " I changed that note. Mr. Hankin gave it me prior to his death, as well as the whole of the property. His friends had not behaved well to him, and, therefore he wished me to have the whole of the property." Cross-examined—l have known the prisoners as respectable persons. The husband of the female prisoner is a scraper on the road. Mr. Richard Baily said—l am a clerk in the Bank of England. I produce a note of the Bank of England for £2OO which was changed for gold on June 29, 1863. It was endorsed on the note " Maria Read, 2, U n i on - p l ace , Dalston." I produce seven notes for £lO eac h, all dated Feb. 8 , 1838. Two of them ar e en d orse d i n the name of Henry Reed. Two others were paid in Decem ber, an d were en dorsed in the same manner, and a third had on it "H. Read," but no address. They were chang e d for gold. Mr. Lewis here asked for a remand, and said he should be attle to trace all the stolen notes to the possession of the prisoners. Mr. Beard said he had me objection to a remand, but hoped that bail might be taken for both the pri soners. lle had a complete answer to the charge when the proper time arrived. Mr. D'Hy ne, urt reminded the prisoners and con tented to take hail, the woman in £l2O and two sureties iu the sum of £6O each, and the son in £6O and two sureties is the sum of £3O each. Wm) Is MR. PATER? asks the London Review. Whore and how was he " raised ?" Who laqd the correcting of his manners in early youth, and the licking of him generally into shape from that period upwards till he was considered able to be responsible for himself ? Above all, how on earth did he come to be called to the bar ? We ask these questions because of a " scene in court" which took place on Tuesday at the Middlesex Sessions, in which this gentleman conducted himself in a manner we should have thought impossible to any man belonging to a liberal profession. In reading the report, one is almost tempted to fancy that some costermonger, who was to be tried at the sessions, had contrived to get into the barrister's robing room, dress himself in a wig and gown, and pass himself off as a member of the bar. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. PECTATOR.—It needs little political wit to dis cover that the Ministry is shaking, and not muati political arithmetic. There is no need to count heads, that most dceeptive of all Conserva tive amusements, or even to watch the drift of the local constituencies, for the House of Commons is in that temper which always presages a change. It is as fretful and nervous as a man who knows he must quarrel with his colleagues, and is making up his mind how to commence the disagreeable task. Under those circumstances tie is usually over polite to his true antagonists, as though hoping by some lucky chance to avoid the approaching contention, and relieves his inward annoyance by snubbing his wife, disappointing his children, and roaring at his dependents. The majority of the House of Com mons is just in that stage, secretly angry with the Ministry, at least irritated with the Cabinet, but still unwilling to break with it, and venting its spleen upon everybody whom it thinks decently safe to attack. It is fretted inwardly with the management of the greatest affairs, but as yet it has not attacked any one of the great departments. Lord Palmerston is never heard without apparent deference, and Lord Clarence Paget carries his esti mates with a rapidity which is almost a triumph, the War Office has been let off without a division, and even Sir Ghorge Grey has not been accused of vacillation more than twice in one night. Tnere is a nervous reluctance to vote whenever a vote may prove important, and the way in which Tories slip out before a division must be a daily heartbreak to Colonel Taylor. But watch the house when it can fume without producing the inevitable colli sion. See how it springs at any member of the Ministry who has laid himself open to attack, how it welcomes a personal charge, how hungry it is for occasions which may justify the throwing of eggs, how loth it is to let any plausible quarrel drop! The sharp snub administered to Mr. Lowe only whetted the appetite of the majority, and the last days of the sitting before Easter were almost one continued "row." Crowds don't pelt their favourites or their favourites' friends, and all this stone-throw ing indicates the internal unpopularity of the Cabi net. The ft ugly ruse" may be deferred, but the mob is in the temper to make it, and when it is made, no censtable's baton will avail to defend the hustings. This Ministry has to go, and it is a little curious to trace the causes which have undermined its hold over the house. The Ministry will, we believe, fall for too many causes combine against it. Eat! Russell's European policy has annoyed the country nearly as much as his American policy hss sAtisfied it, and Englishmen, even when humiliation is una voidable, never endure it patiently. Even if peace is maintained, still, as a London verse-maker is now singing, "Few on earth are the nations who never will be slaves," and the country sees with pained discontent that one of the few is, in spite of Erl Russell, getting its throat slowly cut. After men have been talked into argumentative coma about Schleswig-Holstein, the fact remains that one of the three Protestant States left on earth is being dismembered, ann that. the English Cabinet has not prevented it, and anybody who fancies that English men in their hearts like that does not understand his countrymen. Then the Liberals have been in power with a rare and short interval foe 17 years, and have accumulated upon them the mass of indi vidual, clique, and sectional hatreds which slowly accrete round every free government. The Tories suffer too from their long opposition, for they have now such a mass of people about them who have been hungering for years, that the cake will be too smell, fled they will be driven to job audaciously, but then that is ail in the future. The inevitable hatreds are further increased by special personal animosities. flat curious vein of hauteur, not to say insolence, which underlies Lord Palmerston's bonhommie, and has twice helped to defeat him, crops out in his special subordinates, and of his immediate " men; Mr. Lowe, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. Cowper, Sir R. Peel, and Mr. Layerd, not one conciliates and section of the house to the Administration. A whole party despises Sir George Grey, a whole section frets at r. Gladstone's determined will, and except Lord himself, and sometimes Lord C. Paget, - ''sister who can soothe the house All that, of course, tells -hich is not pinched - 1 does not even - :eg, and Palmerb,, there is not a Ili._ out of a fit of irritation. very little upon the nation—.. by anybody except by Mir. Lowy*, know that Mr. Gladstone has no follov, that Sir C. Wood's ability is obscured by a Stat.. like capacity for irritating everybody about But it does tell very heavily in the house, and when a Ministry only lives by drawing over votes from the opposite side, and carries economical votes by a majority of one, the house becomes as important as the constituencies. Finally the Ministry suffers bitterly from the want of zeal in Its supporters. Except the Annuities Bill, what have they begun, or proposed to begin, or promised that if permitted they will consider how to begin of which the Liberal rank and file care to see the end ? Simply nothing at all, and though students may perceive the vast difference between them and their opponents, and the majority of constituenciEs may ba languidly willing to see them hold power till the lull is over, still the mass of voters cannot be excited into enthubiastic voting fir nothing at all, and when parties are pretty equal and enthusiasm is dead the attack has all the advantage of its momentum. An appeal to the country will not, under such circum stances, modify matters much, and unless Mr. Disraeli delights his enemies by an Ultratnontane speech, or Lord Derby proclaims the moral duty of always following Napoleon's lead, oe some wholly unexpected incident occurs in foreign politics, it is bard to see what is to keep the assailants from carrying the fortress. 'SATURDAY REVIEW.—The nation heard with heartfelt satisfaction, a short time ago, that there was a probability that the Sovereign, who has been so long for all practical purposes, withdrawn from her subjects, would soon return to them again. The public reception which her Majesty accorded to the deputations of certain municipal bodies who ap proached her for the purpose of presenting addresses of congratulation upon the birth of a Prince, seemed to confirm this hope. But later incidents would appear to show that it was premature. The con tinued delegation to the Prince and Princess of Wales of those duties which hitherto have always been fulfilled, when possible, by a Sovereign—and that, too, at a juncture which to the Princess mast be one of terrible anxiety—indicates that the Queen's long retirement has not yet come to a close ; and, indeed, arrangements have been formally announced within the last few days which are obviously incompatible with the residence of her Majesty in London during any part of the present season. Rumours are even in circulation that she will never hold her Court in her capital again. Such a resolution, if it exists, is a matter of grave political moment and may well cause serious uneasiness. It is upon her Majesty's Ministers, however, the responsibility must rest. Cut off by her rank from unrestrained intercourse with any section of society in this country, the Queen cannot know what people are thinking or saying in the busy world outside. She does not enjoy the opportunities which fall to the lot of most of us, knowing that the disposal and the duties of life are regarded by others from a point of view very different from that to which our own feelings or cir cumstances might incline us. But this want her Ministers should supply. It is their duty to speak to their Mistress with loyal frankness, and to ten der advice which her whole past life assures us would not be disregarded ; for a sovereign who has in so many ways made the Court of England synonymous with all that is of good report can only need to be told of an unfulfilled duty. If the course of events indicates that that frankness has not been displayed, her Majesty's advisers ere incurring the heaviest responsibility which conic' possibly fall upon them. Seclusion is one of the few luxuries in which Royal personages may not indulge. The power which is derived :from affection or from loyalty needs a life of almost unintermitted pub licity to sustain it. Human affections will not fasten upon abstractions, and a Sovereign, however be loved, too long shut up from the public eye, may become too much of an abstract idea. In England, moreover, there is another reason which would powerfully contribute to impair the influence of a Sovereign who lived in perpetual retirement. In this country, all classes, from the Prime Minister down to the poorest petty juryman, do a great deal of what is, practically, gratuitous labour for the benefit of the State. The general consciousness of self-sacrifice which is the result of this national habit produces a very exacting popular opinion on the subject of public duty. People usually fix the merit which they expect in others at a point several degrees higher in the morel scale than that which satisfies their personal sense of obligation ; and if their own standard is tolerably high, the standard which they impose upon others rises in proportion. Just as the most unsparing ascetics are also the most pitiless persecutors, so a nation of which all the more important classes are accustomed to make many sacrifices in doing their public duties hears with regret of sentiments or feelings, amiable in thfmselves, which are regarded as demanding the postponement of social or official obligations. A tradesman who will take no part in the charities of his borough, a country gentleman who ignores his local duties, a large pro prietor who spends his time in Paris instead of looking after his estates, are tried by a measure very different from that wlrch would be applied to them in:any other country. Both from the classes below, them and the class to which they belong they in cur, if not disapprobation, something at least of waning confidence. Kings and Queens are not exempt from the same kind of criticism. The chief duty of English Sovereigns, even in times when they directed the policy of the country more openly than they do now, was to show themselves, and to be the centre alike of the pomp of the State and of the gaieties of the well-to-do world ; and the hearti ness with which they performed this duty deter. mined their popularity far more powerfully than their moral qualities, or even than their political tendencies. William 111. was greatly superior in almost every moral quality to Cuarles 11., but there is no question which was the more popular of the two. George IV.'s unpopularity when he was gay and fashionable was undoubtedly great, but it did not approach in intensity to the odium which he incurred in later years, when a growing taste for luxury, combined with a dread of exhibiting his faded charms, drove him to become a gastronomic hermit. And the public instinct is right in this matter. A Sovereign may neglect the administra tive part of his duties, and if he be served by com petent Ministers, the commonwealth will suffer no damage. But no one can supply his place for the purposes of representation. Hereditary monarchy is upheld, in spite of many inconveniences which attach to it, because the emotion of loyalty has been ascertained by experience to be not only a cheap defence of order, but one for which no substitute, even tolerably effective, can be found. But loyalty needs to be stimulated by external display, by the pomp and circumstance of power, by all the kindly feelings which personal intercourse creates between Sovereign and subject. If a Sovereign omits to keep it alive by such means, he leaves unfulfilled that one function which no one else can perform in his stead. 'ro say that the advisers who fail to guard him against such an error are only allowing him to prejudice his own position is to speak of the matter much too lightly. They do far more than this. They are not so much risking the personal popularity of the Sovereign as bring ing into disrepute the institutions of which his office is the keystone, and the permanence of which is in fluenced by the personal life of every occupant of the throne. EXAMINER.—To make up for the brevity of his note on eternities, the Archbishop of Canterbury has written a long pastoral letter to his flock, lay and clerical, upon the theological questions mooted. Perhaps it is not the fault of the Primate that he dces not make clear the knotty questions he dis cusses, but certain it is that his explanations im mensely increase perplexity. For example, what can be made of this passage, a maze of words and phrases, in which the reader is bewildered and lost Lastly, if the Bible be " before all things," and no more than the " written voice of the congregation," even though that congregation shall have prayed to God that " by his holy inspiration" they " may think those things that be good," it will be at the utmost no more than the voice of the Church, which cannot be adduced to establish doctrine if that voice shall utter or "ordain anything contrary to God's word written"--of the Church, which may not " so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to an other," There ic+ a break of light in this view of Mr. Wil son's opinions : The sum and substance of thet which he labours re• peatedly to establi-1 I cannot but consider as conveyed in the following sentence :—" It may," he says, "be expressed thus—the Word of G KI is contained in Scripture, whence it does not follow that it is co-extensive with it." The meaning fairly to be put upon these words I hold to be that there are parts of H ly Scripture which are not the Word of God, and this assertion I conceive to be entirely incon• sistent with the articles, which identify the Holy Scrip tures and the canonical bocks of the Old and New Testa ment, with God's Word written, and thus make the one co-extensive with the other. But the main point is the Archbishop's advice and direction as to what is and what is not permis sible in the way of inquiry, and th, results: You may be induced to ask what is the degree of liberty allowed to each of you, according to the mind of the Church, in dealing with the Bible. The view I have taken of the claim which the who:e of the Holy Scriptures has to be treated as:the Word of God cannot interfere with the right of discussing questions as to various readings or the ge nuineness of a dispute" test ; for this is no more than to argue that a given text or reading is not a part of any ca nonical book. But such an argument on the part of a c ergyinan is a widely different thing from his assertion thst a portion of the Bible which he has acknowledged to belong to a canonical book is not the Word of God. There is surely something contradictory here. The whole is to be accepted as the Word of God, though parts of the whole may be questioned and the authority denied! The Primate admits that there are disputed texts, the genuineness of which is allowable, nay, proper matter of discussion; but if the conclusion fairly arrived at be that those texts are not the Word of God, parts are thereby rejected of the whole for whic'i acceptance and im plicit faith is claimed ! How is this to be recons :!ed with reason and logic? If there are any parts the whole that may be regarded as not genuine, of :_niete admits there are texts open to and the ls - 1 not Mr. Wilson's proposition this doubt, is born® out, that the Word of God is contained in Scripture, but that Scripture may not be co-extensive with the Word of God ; in other words, that Seripore may contain passages net of Divine authority, or, as the Arch bishop would express it, not genuine ? LONDON REVIEW.—Turf quarrels and Turf scan dals have been rather frequent of late. It is not very long ago since we had the great "Reindeer" case; and now we are called upon to witness a grand struggle between the Jockey Club and the Morning Post. There is something, we fear, in the influences or associations of sporting calculated to develop a spirit of contention in its followers and devotees. The perpetual excitement of matches impending or in course of settlement—the stimulus of betting—the constant atmosphere of rivalry, flavoured not seldom with a smatch of fraud—ap pear to put the minds of re:olog gentlemen into a favourable frame for wrangling and litigation. With such large sums of money at issue, this is scarcely to be wondered at. A man who may lose his thousands if the horse on which he has betted heavily comes in second, or recedes into the vaeuuns described by sporting reporters as " nowhere," can not be expected to be very amiable in temper, or constitutionally inclined to play the part of peace maker. But in the case of " The Earl of Coventry and Others v. Willes," tried on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Cromptott on the Norfolk Circuit, the Jockey Cub appears to have exhibited an amount of petty spite more characteristic of a set of angry old women than of a body of English gentlemen. The com mencement of the quarrel dates back to the autumn of 1862. At the First. October Meeting of that year. a match was run between C Tr. Burn eby's Tarragon a and a horse named Michel Grove. The latter was tht victor, buts very general impression was entertained that a fraudulent bet had been made by Csptains Burnaby and Annesley, by which the public had bees induced to back Tarragona, and that Captain Burnaby, the owner of that horse, had instructed the jockey, Nightingale, to lose the race. The stewards of the Jockey Club accordingly commenced an in quiry into the allegation ; but it appears somewhat to have hung fire, and on Oct. 20 Mr. Willes, the sporting reporter of the Morning Post, published in that journal, under his usual signature of " Argus," some comments on the delay of the stewards of the Jockey Club in giving their decision, the parties in volved being naturally desirous of having the impu tation removed if it had been unjustly fastened on them. This criticism on the stewards was endorsed by a leading article in the same day's paper. The Jockey Club fired up into red-hot indignation. It demanded an apology of Mr. Willes. Mr. Willes refused. It then came to a resolution that Mr. Willes "be warned off the land and property of the Jockey Clui; at Newmarket." Subsequently Mr. Willes, on Apri; 20, 1863, wrote a letter to the secretary of the club, b -:ating that his remarks "were penned solely from a setts of duty as a public writer, and without the slighte. .tintention to give pain or annoyance to any single m :mber of the club." This was not held to be sufficient apology, and Mr. Willes was formally warned off the ce:irse —an act which in effect classified him with swindlers and blacklegs, since the ground is open to any one who chooses to subscribe, and is only denied to persons of notoriously or obviously bad character. The victim of this act of petty tyranny, feeling con siderable doubt as to the power of the stewards to exclude respectable people at their will and pleasure, gave notice that, on a certain day, he should com mit a trespass on the course, not in any spirit of bravado, but simply that the issue might be raised in a court of law. This was accordingly done, and the action tried on Tuesday was the result. Some of the main points, however, had already been de cided in the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Willes, as the defendant, had pleaded the prescriptive right of the public to go upon the race-course during the races ; but this, upon demurrer, bad been disal lowed by theQueen'sßench,which held that the occu pation of the land was with the Jockey Club, as represented by the stewards for the time being, and that they possess the right of exclusion. The only issue for trial, therefore, was involved in the defen dant's additional plea that he had " leave and licence" from the plaintiffs to go upon the ground. Teat the stewards, jointly wit h the other members of the Ctub, are the occupiers of the land, seems to have been proved beyond a doubt. Tue portion of heath so used has been conveyed by the Crown to the Jockey Club, which eln rges for training horses and using the betting ring, and deputes to its various servants the several regulations of the course. The annual subscribers' ticket t o the betting ring bear on their back the words, " The holder of this ticket shall be compelled to resign the same, and to leave the inclosure, on the order of any one or more of the stewards of the J oc k e y C lu b, and shall have no claim to a return of the money, &c.;" and it ap pears to have been generally understood that the stewards, for the sake of preserving order, are vested with the right to remove objectionable per sons. But then comes the plea of " leave and licence," This was based on the fact that, since the defendant had been warned off the course, a new set of stewards had come into office, end, as he had received no warning from them, the original "leave and licence" to enter the inclosure, d erived from th subscribers' ticket, had not been rescinded. Mr Willes, in fact, sot ight to set up a distinction be tween the three ph iintiffs, as stewards of the Club , and the Club goner ally. Rut this manifestly would not hold water. As Mr. Justice Crompton observed, " The Jockey Club is not a corporation ; it has no common seal, but acts by its stewards!' The stewards, on this occasion, were as clearly act ing on behalf of the body generally as the chair man of a board a cts for the whole board, or the President of a Republic issues his procla mations in name o f the State. On the purely legal ground, there fore, we cannot but think that the verdict for the plaintiff, with which the action concluded, was correct; but the nominal damages—one shilling--showed how little the jury approved the spirit in which the Jockey Club had acted towards Mr. Winos. That spirit was clearly one of malevolence. The greet offeader, after all, was the Morning Post, Mr. Willes was only the humble agent of that journal. What he had felt it his duty to write, the paper he represented.had con firmed and repeated in its leading columns. If the comments complained of were unjust and libellous , the stewards might have brought an action against the condlictors of the offending journal; but this they omitted to do, and it is, therefore, to be pre sumed that they were conscious of having no case. To have attacked the Morning Post would at least have been courageous ; to make a set upon Mr. •Willes—to warn him off the ground, and class him with gipsies, betters from the back-slums, and thimble-riggerti—was a piece of angry spite which puts the stewartis and all who acted with them in an essentially false position,which the little triumph of a verdict upon mere points of la,,w will not go far to help. It is greatly to be regretted that Lord Stradbroke's amendment, m that it was not expe dient to take notice of ano,aymons writers in the public prints," was not carried. As it was, it re ceived ten votes to twelve against it ; so that the feeling in the club was far from unanimous. And what, after all, have these petty pert ecutors gained ? " The letters of Argus," says the Morning Post in its leading article of Wednesday, " will bo continued by Mr. Willes, except from Newmarket, •where he is forbidden to appear, and the letters of Arens will be written as trustworthily and honestly from Newmar ket by other gentlemen who will be deputed to act in his place. This is but a sorry result for the Jockey Club to obtain. It was the Morning Post which offended them—the Morning Post with whom they wereangry, simply because bey were in the wrong; .i,d against us hey are powerless." This is always the mistake of those who cameo , understand that the press, with right on its side, is a power that cannot ultimately be withstood. COUNTRY MARKETS. .1 YORK- SATURDAY. There was a rather better show of wheat at market to day, Hnd late prices were well maintained. In barley for mer quotations were made. Oats in slow request. Other articles as before. Wheat, red 37s to 40s Oats.... lBs to 203 White do .40s to 449 Beans .. 38- to 40- Barley .26s to 32s Veal; ....—s to -- Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 23s per qr ; flour, 283 to 30s per sack. GRANTHAM-SATURDAY. A fair show of wheat, with a steady sale, at late prices. —Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; red, 41s to 43s per 36st. ; new white, 42s to 465; red, 40s to 425. Malting barley, 335 to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 23s t) 265; new, 20s to24s ; beans, 34s to 365; peas, 33s to 365. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. About the usual supply of wheat on offer to-day, and, with a tolerable inquiry, the prices of last week were made. —New white wheat, 43s to 45s ; red, 40s to 42s per 36 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 32s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 282. ; old oats, 25s to 28s; new oats, 21s to 23s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 32s per 20 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a limited supply of wheat, and prices were about the same as on this day se'nnight. Barley becomes scarcer every week, particularly best malting sorts ; prices unaltered. White wheat. 44s to 47s I Red wheat 40s to 43s Malting barley 35s to 37s I Chevalier barley 35s to 365 Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s I Oats.. 24s to 261 Flour, 27s 6d to —s Od per sack from the miller NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. The demand for wheat to-day was fit m, at late rates. —White wheat, from 41s to 47s ; red wheat, 38s to 42. Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 278 to 30s. Oats old, at 24s to 30$ Od; new, 193 to 255. Beans sold at 38s to 428 per qr, ; new, 34s to 365. Flour, fine, 34s to 38s ; seconds, 29s to 32s per sack. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton April 18. via Marseilles April 12. kirazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. April 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 30. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 3. via Marseilles Mar. 28, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... . Mar. 28, ludia (Calcutta), and Ceylon, vis. Southampton April 3 via llarseilles Mar. 28 India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Mar. 28 via Marseilles .. Mar. 28. Portugal.... April 5. 'Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via ..Southarnp,ton Mar. 28. via Marseilles Mar. 28 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet.... Mar. 24 by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Mar. 25. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tanen& ..... April hi Bahamas, via New York Mexico ....Mar. 3J All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Yeru, Mar. 30 California. and British Columbia. 1 The Figaro Programme says :—" A duel with swords took place three days ago at La Varenne- Saint-Maur between M. L— a literary man, and M. an advocate, when the latter was slightly wounded in the arm. The cause of the meeting was, it is said, a discussion on Alfred de Musset, which took place at a dinner which. every fortnight unites together literary men, advocates, • musicians, medical men, photographers, &c. Another duel with similar weapons was fought on the following day be tween M. Rodrigue, an agent-de-change, and N. Tony Reveillon, editor of the Alan Jaune, in which the latter :ter ceived a scratch in the arm." A QUESTIONABLE TRIBUTE !—As the seventh on the list of the Messrs. Routledge's Shaksperean Publica tions, we observe a shilling volume is advertised by an. English Critic, under the title, " William Shakspere, Not an Imposter 1" Rather a doubtful way of putting it, we venture to suggeit—it this really be intended by the writer of it as a Tercentarian tribute either of respect or admira tion. • Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as burrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once and become members of Messrs. 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